Bye bye bald baby.

Somehow this little kid finally grew some hair, seemingly out of the pretty blue sky.

Curly hair too. I suppose these happy, sweet little curls, are worth the two plus years of baldness, and being called a boy-ness.

I blame the cuties.

The candyriffic clementines that she would eat all day long if given an opportunity.

The same clementines that have led me to google:

"How many cuties can a toddler safely eat?"

Apparently there is an epidemic of cutie addiction.

But part of me is just so thankful that she will eat something. She is picky. Actually, picky doesn't even begin to sum up her hatred of pretty much all food.

I just don't get it. At all. I can count on one hand and still have a finger left over, the number of things that I refuse to eat, and with one hand I can count the number of things she agrees to eat.

Meal times are good times around here.

So in my attempts to trick her into trying NORMAL things, I let her sit on the counter and help me cook. "Let your kids help you make the food. Then they are GUARANTEED to eat it." proclaim all of the parenting websites, magazines and even pediatricians.Lying liars who lie. The lot of them.
She helped me prepare The Pioneer Woman's Sour Cream Noodle Bake.
Made with normal ingredients. NORMAL STUFF.
Not weird stuff.
Not fancy stuff.
I even left out the green onions in hopes of winning her over.
The dish is fabulous by the way, 2 out of 3 children in this house ate it without crying.
The one who had the privilege of sitting on the counter and stirring, however was not one of them.
So she ate cuties.
Because apparently they are working for her, and apparently she likes herself some vitamin C.
Vitamin C and stirring privileges.
Sigh.... we are out of cuties yet again.

We are blessed to have a "cutie" tree in our back yard... They make the store cuties seem yucky... Yep they are that good... and this year that tree only produced about 10... Not kidding... Not happy... because I had to share...

LOVE, the PW noodle bake. I made it two weeks ago and it was a huge hit here. Bald baby has hair!?!?!? But that means no more floating baby head pics!So excited that you are going to have some blue shoes in your life soon. Happy, happy for you!Tracey

Love her hair. love those little curls.Kenzie grew hair seemingly out of nowhere as well.Kenzie is also a picky eater. But so am I... so I don't blame her.And I never believed that nonsense about them helping in the kitchen and being more likely to eat it.Kenzie has helped many times and refused what she helped make.

My toddler is on a self-implemented diet of popsicles and cream cheese. Fortunately she thinks that yogurt tubes from the frezer count as yogurt, and agrees that homemade popsicles work, too. She has no idea she eats kale and beets in her popscles!

oh man this is too funny! My little girl is only one and she is the pickiest eater of all my friend's kids her age. I recently learned that I can microwave green beans with cheese all over them and fork feed them to her and she loves them but, if I dare put one on her tray to pick up by hand she shudders and flings it over the side of her high chair. Sigh. Good luck as you conitnue to try!! hehe The meal sounds yummy by the way!

My 4 year old is, I think, the pickiest eater ever. When she figured out as a baby that all she had to do was turn her head and clench her lips if she didn't like it, it was all over. We have spent the last, oh, I'd say 3 years with her sitting at the dinner table, lips clenched, and then her crying when she didn't get a treat. I thought I might even have her with the treat thing, until she started saying, "Mommy, I don't want a treat today." Well, at almost 5, she has seen the light! She has been eating greeen beans like a champ! No other veggies, but who cares! Green beans, I tell you! And the other night, she ate baked ziti! Can you believe that? When they say you have to introduce a food to a child 10 times for them to eat it, no, no, no. I don't thinks so. Try 3 years worth of introducing. Try more like 1,000 times. 10 times, yeah right. Anyway, hopefully, she'll come around eventually. Just keep introducing.

I love those too. We recently discovered that our 19-month-old loves oranges. She ate three in a row the other day and I was happy because she had a cold and I thought she could use the extra vitamin C.

She sounds like alot of kids I know:) Our 5 year old DD was very picky about her foods but then we found out she had reflux. Not only did the specialist tell us that reflux patients(young kids) eat slowly(which our DD did and it annoyed us to no end) but they can be picky about what they'll eat b/c they're so worried about the pain they'll get from it. We felt like horrible parents after that b/c we'd just thought she was a "slow, picky eater" b/c she didnt like whatever we were making. But it turned out to be a medical condition instead. Not saying thats whats going on with your daughter. Just voicing that we found there was something else to our story. And I love your line "Lying liars." It made me LOL:)XO,Sarah

Yep same at our house!!! We have had to put them where Hayden can't reach them because she learned she could peel them herself and fast!!!! One day I figured out that between me and daddy; Hayden had scored 6 cuties...oh that diaper was lovely.

There is always this: at least our girls will never worry about scurvey!!! LOL

Thanks so much for the Blondie recipe. I've already made it twice and everyone loves it. I'm thinking of trying it with chocolate cake mix and white chocolate chips. Good April Fools day post. When I read that I thought "I don't really know her, but this doesn't see like her style". I'm glad you aren't going to scare your baby with creepy clowns :) Thanks again for your great blog!

I was bald-baby until I was 3, then curls sprouted also. When I was 10 I told my mom I had curly hair because it had been growing in my head and getting all scrunched up and curly all those years I was bald. >_< I also now have what I affectionately call the most fab white-girl afro...

Cooking with me never works at my house either. My son eats nothing..well, he eats quesadillas and yogurt (and a few other things). Dinner is a fight, but he's growing and the dr said not to push. She definitely is getting her vitamin C! That dish looks so yummy, I've thought about making it.

Kids helping in the kitchen is definitely a lie-- and a mean one, cause now my kids still won't eat what we've made and I have an extra mess to clean up. Oh well! On another note, looks like your baby decided to get cute curly hair on the same day that my son decided my daughter no longer needed hers:http://littlevintageme.blogspot.com/2011/04/there-are-days.html

I love her curls!! They are worth the wait. London still doesn't have much hair but her curls are great - crazy and messy at times but I love them. She is 3 1/2 and still no hair cut! She tells me that she is "A WILD hair girl"

Bald or not, she's adorable! I love your blog - you were one of the first blogs I ever found and started following long ago! Keep it up! (I especially LOVE your simple recipes; my husband is currently craving Toffee Crack :)

yes, I don't know who came up with this myth about kids magically wanting to eat what they cook. My girls love to help cook but will say ooo, gross the entire time if it isn't something the already like. and will happily cook it, but not eat it :)

oh, this post could have been mine when my 3rd was this age. BUT i continued to have her keep cooking with me, kept placing the food in front of her, and eventually she started eating everything! EVERYTHING!

and she wants to be a "cooker" when she grows up, and wants to own her own restaurant, "josefiney tortellini's."

My mom still tells the story of how she literally turned orange when she was little. My grandma took her to the doctor in a panic but was just told to cut down on the amount of oranges she let her eat. So...if she starts to look like a little jack-o-lantern you will definitely find out how many cuties are too many! :-)

HA! I keep repeating that out loud and cracking myself up - Lying liars who Lie! Teehee!

We loves cuties, too. My kids aren't super picky, but I can never seem to predict what they're going to love. I make them close their eyes to try new things. Sometimes it works! But normally if they see anything green or vegetable-y, they think it's going to cause them deep and woeful ruin if it touches their tiny tongues. Crazy little nuts. As long as their nutrition during the week balances out, I guess they're doing good.

Just found your blog, and read this post. OMG, this is my son too! He will happily help with making dinner, even tasting along the way, all the while talking about how yummy it's going to be. Once it hits the table? "I don't like it!" Thankfully his skinny butt loves dairy. :)

The morning before I read your post my Husband called to tell me that cuties were the only thing our Munch would eat for breakfast. I totally didn't mind until I was the one to clean the ORANGE poop. Ugh. Oh the joys of a picky eater.